Interesting Links for 29-05-2012

• How does UK employee protection compare with other countries?
  (tags: Employment work law protection )
• Everyone cheats a little bit, but not so much that they feel bad about it. (Plus tips on how to make them do it less)
  (tags: cheating lies psychology behaviour honesty )
• Male boards tend to hire people that are like them.
  (tags: business employment gender )
• If you like Community then you have to read this hilarious spoof of the new showrunners
  (tags: viaJohnCoxon funny twitter community )
• World’s first heterosexual lolly launched
  (tags: funny )
• The Beard Trustworthiness Scale
  (tags: beards funny )
• Secret courts plans watered down, but not far enough
  (tags: liberty uk politics law )
• If people put their effort into writing better emails, rather than inventing a replacement, there wouldn't be a problem with it.
  (tags: email technology people )

Gaze into the Wheel of Tao

Over on FB meico wrote:

Last night I found myself programming Taoist cosmology*... When making this image I had to periodically look outside to make sure the stars weren't going out one by one.**

This is an image of all trigram like symbol sets. The image represents all possible n-grams with lengths zero to eighteen. Going from lower portion of the image to the upper shows n-grams from zero to unity. The left side is all even n-grams and the right side is all odd n-grams.

*In the language called Processing. Code available to those interested.
**A reference to "The Nine Billion Names of God" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God).